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The GAO Finds Twice as Many Self-Employed as the BLS

Small Business Labs

workforce is contingent, up from 30% in 2005.  Self-employed workers such as shop and restaurant owners, etc. It also helps answer the question asked in the HBR article Where are all the Self-Employed Workers? According to a recently released report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 40% of the U.S.

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Manchester is now a major draw for office design firms

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In 2005, one idea was to link up the North of England with high-speed rail as a way of shifting the balance of the whole country. Other commercial operations moved in, including banks, shops, restaurants and offices. Levelling up -whatever you take that to mean – would help all of this, but Manchester is doing it anyway.

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Street Food Gets Real

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Free Webinar: Using Twitter to Grow Your Business | Main | More on the Growth of Small Farms and Local Food » June 22, 2010 Street Food Gets Real     The Hartman Group has a great article on the growing trend of street food in urban environments. 

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Urban Farming Continues to Expand

Small Business Labs

  The picture on the right is from the article and does a nice job showing the product.    Restaurants and others use it to source local food; local farmers use it sell product.  " The company installs 1.2 square meter garden boxes in the back yards of their clients. 

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Yahoo CEO on Local Content

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Frugal Innovation and Homemade Nuclear Fusion | Main | Wisconsin, Illinois Companies Feeling the Recovery » June 30, 2010 Yahoo CEO on Local Content Interesting interview with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz in the Wall Street Journal  (registration required). 

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

Success

This was the spring of 2005. The lodge has a restaurant with a nice outside patio overlooking a river. There’s a restaurant near my house in Charlotte, North Carolina, that scrolls trivia questions on a few television screens all day. Anyone in the restaurant can play, simply by downloading an app.

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Why You Should Travel Back Through Time | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Blog articles can be forgotten easily and that’s why I like the favourite posts plugin that you often see on blogs. My blog focuses on London restaurants, which means in some cases you really are travelling back in time because restaurants come and go so regularly. Thanks for this article!

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